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Climate change science integrates multidisciplinary research to quantify, understand and ultimately mitigate alterations in Earth’s climate system driven predominantly by anthropogenic activities.

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A 30-minute stroll across New York's Central Park separates Trump Tower from the American Museum of Natural History. If the ...

Trees are known for absorbing CO2. But microbes in their bark also absorb other climate-active gases, methane, hydrogen, and ...

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